[WARC] Field Day 2009 - Planning Update

[Len Litvan]

Hello All,

Steve KD0BOD and I had a good planning meeting regarding field day over 
lunch yesterday.  Things are falling in place pretty well.

The Winona County Sheriff is providing their communications trailer and 
new gasoline generator this year.  Sheriff Brand said they hoped to have 
it set up before 10:00 AM.

A VHF station has been offered and one of the HF transceivers and power 
supplies also.  We have an offer of a second HF station, but the point 
was brought out that one of the purposes of field day was to be exposed 
to different operating conditions and situations, and this particular HF 
rig (Clare's) has been used for a number of field days in recent years.  
So, I am asking, WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE CONSIDER PROVIDING AN HF 
TRANSCEIVER OTHER THAN A YAESU FT-847?  Clare made the point about 
becoming familiar with different rigs during field day--a good point to 
raise.  Please let me know if you have a rig which could be used for the 
second HF position.

We have a volunteer for assistance with logging -- manual log sheets, 
logging software, and computer.

Now we need to focus on antennas and meals.  Lastly is publicity and 
collecting info for bonus points, which should go OK.  Steve will submit 
the results to ARRL this year.  There will be a few other minor items, 
and Steve & I have them pretty well identified.

We are going to have FUN this year!!!

Sincerely,
Len